From the Mean Streets of Paradise Island

From the Mean Streets of Paradise Island

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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Calling All Heroes

Calling All Heroes

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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Cyber Naughty

Cyber Naughty

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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Mod Fluff Explosion

Mod Fluff Explosion

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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Happy to Serve

Happy to Serve

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments. We’re now looking at the earliest Wonder Woman stories by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and artist H.G. Peter, as collected in the paperback Wonder Woman Chronicles Vol. 3 or the hardcover Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 2.

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Farewell to Wonder

Farewell to Wonder

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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Amazons from Space

Amazons from Space

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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All Together Now

All Together Now

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run, the earliest 1940s comics, and the current “New 52” era.

A few weeks back I talked about how Gail Simone got me back into Wonder Woman after a long lapse. Last week I explored some of the parts of the run I wasn’t quite on board with, with the introduction of the big bad killing machine Genocide. A whole lot happened in that arc—the Olympian gods came back after a few years away, the Amazons were awakened from the amnesiac exile they’d been cursed into after Amazons Attack!, Zeus created a whole new male race of Manazons to supplant the Amazons, and Wonder Woman killed Ares and foreswore her gods.

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Manazons Attack

Manazons Attack

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

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The Bride Wore Hands

The Bride Wore Hands

WONDER WEDNESDAY

On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.

I’m going to have to interrupt the discussion of Gail Simone’s late-00s run on Wonder Woman to go back to where Wonder Wednesday began, looking at the current “New 52” incarnation of Wonder Woman. The second trade collection of the new series just arrived, and I’ve waited too long not to dig in immediately.

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